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Why is time slider path faintly visible before playing?

If I open a GPS path in GE and use the Time Slider to animate it, the path appears strongly in the colour and opacity of my choice, fine. But when the front slider is back at 'home base' on the left, I can still see the path faintly.

Whether this is immediately or after a few plays I'm not yet quite sure.

It's an 11 mile hike I did in the Mojave desert section of Joshua Tree National Park on 23rd February.

Following my usual procedure, the GPS file (from my smartphone, an HTC Touch Pro 2 using Windows Mobile 6.1) was imported to my PC. (I use Memory Map on both the PC and TP2). Then saved as a GPX, which was opened in GE 5.2 in the 'regular' way.

This is bugging me and I'm working on it, but not quite there yet!

It doesn't happen with all my tracks. And it seems to depend on whether the file is the only time-stamped file present in My Places. If/when the penny drops, I'll post here again, as I'm sure there are more enjoyable things you could be dong this weekend. Me too, come to that - we're promised 29 degrees F, 10-15 degrees over the norm for the beginning of October!

This is weird, the Joshua file has faded path but the gpx doesn't. And I could get the gpx file to turn solid blue (the whole path only, but never a portion) when I loaded it as a gpx, but when I saved it as a kml and reloaded it, I couldn't get any visibility at all.